1:36 AM,
Jun. 23, 2013

Several inmates at the St. Landry Parish Jail have reportedly been held without being issued a bond formal charges. .

Written by

Zane Hill
zhill@dailyworld.com

What appears to be a collective failure of the criminal justice system has led to several alleged civil rights violations for inmates in the St. Landry Parish Jail.

A recently addressed overcrowding issue at the jail revealed a number of inmates have resided there for hundreds of days without being formally charged for their alleged crimes or, according to Sheriff Bobby Guidroz, without even hearing from their court-appointed defense attorneys.

"Some of these folks who've been here hundreds of days, if they're convicted, they won't serve that long of a sentence," he said. ...